Consider this an early Sunday, it wouldn’t have quite the same impact tomorrow.

Guy (Guido) Fawkes set out to destroy Parliament on the 5th of November 1605, positive that people would remember him. Remember, remember, the 5th of November…

And we do. But why? The Gunpowder Treason and Plot. But poor old Guy was the fall guy. He’d only been left there to guard it. It’s possible that the entire thing was just a frame. (A really good conspiracy theorist could work out that Parliament wanted to frame the Catholic Church, so they planted it there… I’m sure Dan Brown would be right on that.) Continue reading →